Home | What's New | Photos | Histories | Sources | Reports | Cemeteries | Headstones | Statistics | Surnames

• Find
  • Surnames
  • Bookmarks
  • Places
  • Dates
  • Cemeteries
  • Search People
  • Search Families
• Media
  • Photos
  • Documents
  • Headstones
  • Histories
  • Recordings
  • Videos
  • Albums
  • All Media
• Info
  • What's New
  • Most Wanted
  • Reports
  • Statistics
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Repositories
  • Contact Us

Louisa Jane Meece^{[1, 2, 3]}
1842 - 1931

Home    Search    Print    Login    Add Bookmark

• Birth	21 Aug 1842	Pulaski Co., Kentucky   [4]
  Gender	Female
  Died	13 Jan 1931	Somerset, Ky   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I1486	John Colyer family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2015

  
  

  Father	Ephraim Meece,   b. 4 Feb 1812, Pulaski county, KY ,   d. Abt 1890, Pulaski county, KY
  Mother	Matilda Richardson,   b. 1815, Pulaski county, KY ,   d. 26 Jul 1853, Pulaski county, KY
  Family ID	F288	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Charles Granade Colyer,   b. 8 Aug 1832, Pulaski Co., Kentucky ,   d. 11 Apr 1910, Somerset, Ky
  Married	14 Jul 1861	Pulaski Co., Kentucky (shotgun wedding ?)   [1, 2, 3, 5, 6]
  Children	> 1. Cyrenius E. Colyer,   b. 10 Dec 1861,   d. 1934 > 2. Samuel Colyer,   b. 22 May 1884,   d. 1 Feb 1972, Somerset, Ky > 3. Harriet Luvenia Colyer,   b. 9 Mar 1875, Ruth, KY ,   d. 17 Dec 1941, Los Angeles, CA   4. Bluford Pinctner Colyer,   b. 23 Jan 1871,   d. 1872   5. Garfield Colyer,   b. ABT. 1879   6. Leola Matilda Colyer,   b. 26 May 1881,   d. 1882 > 7. Lucy Alma Colyer,   b. 20 Mar 1879,   d. 11 Apr 1965   8. Lydia Louisa Colyer,   b. 23 Mar 1873,   d. 1889, neumonia from sneaking out at night and jumping in Pittman Creek   9. Sarah E. Colyer,   b. 11 Aug 1865,   d. 1881   10. Nathaniel Colyer,   b. 21 Dec 1867,   d. 1939 > 11. Ellen Nevada Colyer,   b. 8 Apr 1877,   d. 1957 > 12. Charles Granade Colyer,   b. 9 Aug 1869,   d. 1956
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F254	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		Clay Hill baptist church Ruth, KY Here is picture of Clay Hill baptist church and cemetery where Charles Granade Colyer is buried as well as picture of Charles grave and that of his wife Louisa Jane Meece Colyer Status: Located
  		Louisa Jane Meece Colyer grave Here is picture of Clay Hill baptist church and cemetery where Charles Granade Colyer is buried as well as picture of Charles grave and that of his wife Louisa Jane Meece Colyer Status: Located
  		Charles Granade Colyer Family photo of Charles Granade Colyer, his wife and children. Sam Colyer is boy on knee. Status: Located
  		Charles Granade Colyer family with labels photo from about 1892

  
  

  Documents		Louisa Jane Meece Colyer deed Here apparent deeds where the home place of Charles Grenade and Louisa Jane Colyer land is purchased in a deed from a Richardson and a deed from Cyrenius W Colyer to Louisa Jane Meece Colyer. Status: Located
  		Meece family Genealogy report prepared Mr. Dean Hunter on related Meece family Status: Located
  		Louisa Jane Meece Colyer deed from Richardson Here apparent deeds where the home place of Charles Grenade and Louisa Jane Colyer is purchased in a deed from a Richardson Status: Located
  		Louisa Jane Meece Colyer, Confederate pension application 1912 (large file 9 megs) Application papers on deceased husband Charles Granade (CG) Colyer service for Confederate army in Civil War. Shows Roscoe James, Richard Colyer, Mr. Keeney as affiants. Handwritten note from Louisa Jane Colyer visiting daughter in Ft. Worth TX. Roscoe James later lived at the corner of Jarvis and E. Mt. Vernon streets in Somerset Ky. He was son-in-law to Louisa Jane Colyer, having married Alma, her daughter. R.S. Keeney, another affiant, was a long time resident of the Ruth community of east Somerset and the person who donated land to Clay Hill Baptist Church for its founding in 1896. Richmond Keeney was a founding trustee of Clay Hill Baptist Church.
  		1886 Ruth Ky Warren Store ledger WARNING large 60 meg file: requires high speed: This ledger of the general store at what is now known as Ruth Ky was found in ceiling of old log home renovation 2012. The log house built by John Langdon in 1814, purchased by John Colyer 1842, then purchased by Andrew Warren 1865. Andrew's son, Mathew(born 1859), evidently ran store across the road from the house. The store later became in 1888 the first post office in the community at current day hwy 192 at Pitman Creek in Somerset Ky. The first post office in 1888 known as Juno....later became Ruth Ky. Many area family names in ledger: Colyer, Warren, Richardson, Meece, Botkin, Allen, Sword.
  		1912 Lousia J Colyer deed traced to current location deed traced of old Charles Granade Colyer home/farm that was titled in Louisa Jane Meece Colyer's name to current location
  		1892 deed Louisa Jane Meece Colyer to TP Meece land inherited from Louisa's father, Ephraim Meece, transferred to TP Meece.
  		1917 deed from Louisa J Meece Colyer to Roscoe P James, son in law Land transferred to Roscoe James who married daughter to Charles Granade Colyer & Lousia Jane, Alma.
  		Somerset Ky Elm Street and South Main Street Property tax map (apparently) from about 1920 This is likely related to another Charles Granade Colyer rather than son of John born 1781. Appears to show where the Colyer House apartments owned by Mrs. Charles Granade Colyer were located. Excerpt from Jan 7 1920 Somerset Journal: "One of the prettiest of the holiday parties was given by Mrs. Ben D. Smith on Tuesday afternoon at her pretty apartment at the Colyer House. Mrs. Smith entertained at cards and there were five tables playing. Attractive were the decorations and most delicious refreshments were served.
  		1930 census Sam Colyer
  		1920 census Sam Colyer
  		1910 Pulaski County Ky Census Richard G Collier Richard G Collier attested Charles Granade Colyer widow pension having been fellow Confederate Soldier 6th Ky Calvary.
  		1916 Confederate widow pension application Richard G. Collier by wife Sallie. Shows that Richard G. Collier who attested to Charles Granade Colyer confederate pension app, was also in the 6th Ky Calvary.
  		Louisa Jane Meece Colyer Obit Somerset Ky The Commonwealth 01/14/1931
  		1907 financial crisis stock market crash 50% mentioned in Meece letter to Charles Granade Colyer. Involves Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company, started by cousin to Charles Granade Colyer, Arthur St Clair Colyar. As a result the U.S. Federal Reserve FED was created.
  		1907 Letter from W M Meece 1907 Letter from W M Meece, brother of Louisa Jane Meece Colyer (wife of Charles Granade Colyer) to Granade and Louisa Colyer. Status: Located
  		1860 Census Ephraim Meece

  
  

• Notes

  NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 25 June 1920 Sells More Edens. The Somerset Hardware Co. gives a lit of those who have purchased Eden Washing Machines in an "ad' this week. Since the "ad" was printed the company reports the following sales which should have been added: Kenwick Hotel, Mrs. Chas. Colyer, Newtonian Hotel, and Mrs. J.C. Curtis. 1930 Census: Person's aged 80 & over Colyer Louisa J 86 Sam Colyer Mother




• Sources

  [S05088] Collierj.ftw--Tim Jeffries, Cincinnati OH, Tim Jeffries, Cincinnatti OH. Date of Import: Aug 6, 1998 [S14494] Alice Colyer Gala. Date of Import: Sep 19, 1998 [S27813] ColyerV2.FTW. Date of Import: Sep 30, 1998 [S01737] Richard Curtis files. Marriage Records - CD#2. [S01732] Marriage Records - CD#2 - marriage records of Illinois, Indiana,Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee.